Who runs this website?

[uanmi]

I think that the information on the website is great.

What I cannot understand is that in the registration list the country "Australia - Aboriginal" exists.

I looked and I did not see USA - Indian
I also did not see any other aboriginal or native listed

Can someone who runs this site please tell me why a country is listed that does not exist?

I have nothing against political statements, but really is a game website the place to do it?

regards, Mark

[b etor]

silly people make up places. they try to clear those places out.
i don't run this site tho.

[Provost Harrison]

I run the site and all I can say is that these things happen. It was the fault of the creators of vB who selected the flags/locations and we did not have any control over it.

[ZEE]

Do not listen to the one known as Provost Harrison. the secret truth of it all, is that I make everything happen around here. confer to me when necessary and all will be well. thank you.



piece

i welcome you to come to the Off-Topic Forum here, and vent some of your frustrations about our political statements...

[Provost Harrison]

I have banned AAHZ for his insolence...

[Robert]

I've moved this thread to the "Apolyton" forum.
DanQ, Ming, Rah and Locutus are the owners of this website. (they have an 'Admin' badge under their name)

I'm sure that any of them can answer your question.

[LordShiva]

Also, Sikkim is not a country.

[PLATO]

Speaking of Country flags. Sure would be nice if the occupied South could have her flag listed.

[Locutus]

Glad to hear you're enjoying the site, uanmi.

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
I run the site and all I can say is that these things happen. It was the fault of the creators of vB who selected the flags/locations and we did not have any control over it.

Thankfully Provost couldn't be more wrong in his first sentence But he's pretty much on the money with the second one. We constantly get questions like "can you remove flag X?" or "can you add flag Y?", "why is flag Z (not) on the list?", etc. It'd be a full job to honour all these requests and come up with some sort of consistent policy for flags and this feature really isn't important enough to warrant that.

Unless there's going to be another major revolution a la the break-up of the Soviet Union don't count on us changing anything about the existing flag list. It is what it is, it exists so people can add a little bit of flavour to their profiles -- and there are enough options so anyone should be able to find something of their liking (and if not, just don't set a flag at all). The presence or absence of any flag should not in any way be taken as a political statement, it's just what this hack happened to ship with (well, except for the renaming of Macedonia to FYROM, you can blame Markos for that one ) If you wanna call it anything it's just laziness on our part...

[joncha]

Also, there's a typo in the country list. I believe that the correct spelling is "Macedonia."

[Kuken]

the following countries' flags should be updated:

- afghanistan
- serbia
- montenegro

thnakoyu

I have been saying this in every one of these threads though..
so I guess those countries are not important enough

[uanmi]

Hi,

my point is that in the registration for this website there is a country that does not exist.

Australia - Aboriginal

It is possibly something that should be deleted, as the entries must be in a database table.

regards, Mark

[joncha]

What have you got against aboriginal people?

[General Ludd]

He thinks they should be deleted.

[LordShiva]

Genocide

But Sikkim isn't a country.